OpenAI has removed the ChatGPT orange warning boxes that indicate whether a user may have violated its content policy. Model behavior product manager Laurentia Romaniuk shared in a post on…
"An official website of the United States government," reads small text atop the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website that Elon Musk's team started populating this week with information on…
The Trump administration has put CHIPS Act disbursements temporarily on hold as it reviews CHIPS Act awards to ensure that it conforms with its policies and the president's executive orders.…
Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that specialized in understanding Big Tech’s entrance into financial products, three sources familiar…
Meta's CTO said staff unhappy with the tech giant's latest policies should work somewhere else, an internal chat reveals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Meta’s Oversight Board is coming under new pressure to respond to the company’s recent policy changes on fact-checking and moderation, which were made without input from the advisory group. A…
Condé Nast and several other media companies sued the AI startup Cohere today, alleging that it engaged in "systematic copyright and trademark infringement" by using news articles to train its…
T-Mobile uses a very structured approach when it comes to the data plans it offers, as they are customized according to certain types of devices. What this basically means is…
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a roadmap for how the company plans to release GPT-5, the long-awaited follow-up to 2023's GPT-4 AI language model that made huge waves…
IBM’s Finance & Operations teams given an ultimatumWorkers told they must move closer or accept a redundancy packageExpensive workers will be replaced with new recruits and AI IBM has enforced…
Brian Quintenz, who leads policy for Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto team, announced on Wednesday that he’s being tapped to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to his X post.…
The US DOGE Service's access to the private data of ordinary Americans and federal employees is being challenged in several lawsuits filed this week. Three new complaints seek court orders…
In early February, a dataset tracking car crash deaths in the US curiously went missing from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website. Unlike other Donald Trump-ordered changes to…
Ivanti patches four bugs found in Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Cloud Services ApplicationsAll four could be used in RCE attacksPatches are available, and users are advised to apply them…
Biomedical research in the U.S. is world-class in part because of a long-standing partnership between universities and the federal government. On Feb. 7, 2025, the U.S. National Institutes of Health…
Quintenz's appointment could speed up the CFTC's growing crypto role, mainly if Congress expands the regulator's authority. Source
The re-election of President Trump has had a noticeable effect on the way many CEOs are running their businesses. Programs to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion are being canceled, and…
Shopify took down Kanye West’s online store after the musician sold t-shirts with the swastika symbol. West, who also goes by Ye, advertised his online store in a Super Bowl…
Verizon has defeated a lawsuit filed by a utility pole worker who claims that lead cables made him sick. A federal judge on Friday granted Verizon's motion to dismiss the…
DeepSeek is the latest hot name in AI, with Huawei, Honor, Microsoft and even some auto makers already using the R1 model in its products and services. The Chinese-made platform…